I managed to install the ESXi 7 in vmware workstation ....
In my earlier ESXi6.7U3, the local storage is shown, and is fine,
But, in 7, I just finished installing, but storage shows as 0 ??
What is your VMware Workstation version? Is it a very old version?
Also which type of disk controller and disk type did you provide for this VM?!
I added as paravirtualscsi and scsi
Seems like something is changed in version 7 as local install storage vmdk cannot become as storage device for VMs ?
Yes, much has changed, as you have found out from this thread, which you still haven't answered why it's critical. All of this is new and unsupported. It's designed for tinkerers only. You'll just have to take it as it comes.
Looks like the esxi 7 used the SSD storage as virtual flash instead of showing it as datastore.
Brgds
Moderator: Locking this thread, it is a continuation of the issues in this previous thread: 6.7u3 to 7 upgrade errors